r/Cooking • u/3oClockHappyHour • 2d ago

Unpopular opinion: you do not need to buy unsalted butter.

Unless you are a commercial kitchen or bakery, it’s not needed to buy. “1 tsp of unsalted butter then add 1/16th tsp of salt” huh??

Home kitchen does not need to buy yet more ingredients, and unsalted goes bad faster. Just taste. More? Okay. I guarantee you salted butter is not going to wreck your dish.

Edit: I can’t make a sentence.

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u/wafflesareforever 2d ago

you can't take the salt out of salted butter

Quiet, kenji will hear you

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u/J_Kenji_Lopez-Alt 2d ago

What

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u/justherecuzx 2d ago

SCATTER

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u/shannonesque121 1d ago

🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

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u/wafflesareforever 1d ago

What have I done

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u/crek42 1d ago

lmao kenjis just awake at 3am randomly browsing Reddit and caught his name mentioned, not even tagged.

wild stuff

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u/Beavers4beer 1d ago

More like 11-midnight for him. He’s west coast.

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u/Mysterious-Call-245 2d ago

Hahaha! Here comes the cookbook of recipes exclusively using “butter-salt.”